"courteous kind, and pleasant, especially towards someone of lower social status."
| synonyms: | courteous, polite, civil, chivalrous, well mannered, decorous, gentlemanly, ladylike, civilized, tactful, diplomatic; |
Such beautiful adjectives. I beg to differ, however on the "towards someone of lower social status" part. I think that in our day and age, the idea of being courteous and pleasant is considered gracious even if you are dealing with your equal. I think that graciousness is more towards "especially to those who have wronged you" rather than those of lower social status.
I have always had this central gravitation towards a life of graciousness. In my perfect and untainted state, my core is graciousness. I try to become as courteous and as benevolent as I possibly can. There are times when those traits falter and I can be the absolute opposite of courteous.
A monster.
synonyms: rude, impolite, uncivil,
discourteous, ill-mannered,
bad-mannered, unmannerly, uncouth,
disrespectful, ungallant,
insolent, impertinent,
impudent, churlish,
boorish, gauche, cavalier,
offhand, unladylike, ungentlemanly,
blunt, gruff, curt, terse, sharp,
short, surly, unfriendly,
hostile, unkind,
inconsiderate, insensitive
Notice how the words 'being blunt" and "being sharp" have exactly the same meaning despite being in descriptive terms, the opposite?
I find it intruiging!
So clearly is there is two poles of anything inside a single body, there is a conflict...a sort of 'tearing apart' sorta conflict but the idea is that, the dominating, most treasured pole is the one with the upper hand control. And I believe that this sort of struggle between gracious vs ungracious is one I'm willing to experience daily until my graciousness muscles have hypertrophied and my ungracious muscles have atrophied.
They wont dissapear, but they will atrophy with the right amount of effort and time.
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